Thankful Villages (also known as Blessed Villages are settlements in England and Wales from which all their members of the armed forces survived WW1. The term Thankful Village was popularised by the writer Arthur me in the 1930s; in Enchanted Land(1936), the introductory volume to “the king’s land” series of guides, he wrote that a Thankful Village was one which had lost no men in the war because all those who left to serve came home again. His initial list identified 32 villages. There are tens of thousands of villages and towns in the United Kingdom. Fourteen of the English and Welsh villages are considered "doubly thankful", in that they also lost no service personnel during WW2 Local villages are Toft-Cambridgeshire, Wordwell-west suffolk, and Strethel in north essex. Toft is the only viliage that appears to commemorate the fact but both Strethel and wordwell hardly come under the designation of "villiage", i will however endeavour to visit all three and at the very lease get some better images
